Lead Animator Wakefield, England
Job description
Are you an experienced Lead Animator looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact on an exciting, new IP?
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
Rebellion North are looking for a talented lead animator to work on Rebellion games as well as trusted industry partners on genre-defining AAA IPs. You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious team working on multiple projects using different engines including Unreal 5. Join us as we shoot for the stars!
You will be joining the talented Rebellion North studio based in our Wakefield Location. Rebellion North are a dynamic and growing team who relish challenges and punching above their weight. Our friendly & inclusive studio culture fosters an environment where all team members can reach their potential in the fastest possible time.
The Opportunity
As the Lead Animator at Rebellion North you will work on an exciting, as-of-yet unannounced sports IP. You will be joining Rebellion North based in our Wakefield Studio, an ambitious and growing team who relish challenges and punching above their weight. Our friendly and inclusive studio culture fosters an environment where all team members can reach their potential in the fastest possible time.
The successful candidate will be passionate about animation and have a wealth of experience working in human motion capture. You will have experience in a Senior or Lead Animation role and be able to comfortably mentor the talented junior members of the team in order to nurture the team growth and have maximum impact on our games.
Our preference is for candidates to work together at our Wakefield site but remote and hybrid candidates will also be considered.
Responsibilities
- Proactively manage your team’s performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.
- Collaborate with Head of Art, Designers, Programmers and Producers to balance creative vision with production realities.
- Work with PBR pipeline and advance game engines tools.
- Create high quality, in game animations to the highest standard in line with the style and demanded by the project.
- Build strong collaboration with motion capture partners.
- Verify the quality of animation in the game and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of motion capture, 3DS Max, Character Studio, Motion builder and Maya.
- Professional experience animating realistic human motion.
- Expert knowledge of rigging and skinning.
- Able to produce high quality animation in different game engines including Unreal.
- Expert knowledge of the game development process and production pipelines
- Able to lead a team to achieve a specific outcome to drive performance.
- Mentor junior members of the team.
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us here.
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers
